OutLoud!

No I havn't fallen off the face of the planet. I hate when real life gets in the way of "online life".

My house is slowly resembling a house. At the rate the work is moving, I may get to move in by christmas if I am lucky. I knew from the beginning that all the excited people willing to jump in and get it done would soon fade and I would be left with this frustration of where is everybody at. I should have come off of my tight self and hired somebody in the first place. But then again I am thrilled that I have managed to keep the costs down well enough that I have only spent half my money and have bought everything for 75% of the work.

I hate when people go on and on about why their kids are wonderfull, and why I often treat my little brother as my own I will keep this short and quick. I am so proud of him. To see a 13 year old kid who was kicked out of the public school system for "terroristic threatening" (another story in itself that I will spare you) turn into a Straight A college student that has not only managed to stay on the Deans list, but is working as a police cadet and now also as an assistant to the k-9 unit is pretty amazing. Although the fact that he has already managed to have a gun pulled on him, and broken up a gang riot in the first months of it is scary. We have managed to bond on another level though. He told me he finally understood my mentality. He said when he came upon a broken ankle his first thought was no longer, that must hurt, or poor guy it was "A broken Ankle?!! Well now I have an hours worth of paperwork I ain't getting off on time tonight!"

The new season of Lost is finally here!! I am so addicted it is almost sad. Especially when you take in to account that I have never been addicted to any type of TV. I have wondered at times why I even own one. I owe my friend for this addiction, so a big thanks to him for passing along the entire first season to me that he downloaded and became addicted to. My entire family has since joined in on this addiction. I love him and hate him all at the same time for sharing his pirated TV show with me.

My Good Deed for the Day

I am in no way bragging here, but I often feel elated when I get to help others. Our administration decided to do some house cleaning today. Our Director of Nursing greeted me when I got to work proudly with the fact that our Oxygen storage room that resembled a maze previously now had open space. That in itself thrilled me because now I do not have to take the chance of breaking an ankle reaching for an oxygen tank. Now maybe us nurses will actully pull the tanks off in a row, instead trying to pull only from the front, causing a domino effect of oxygen tanks. This room which had become a depository of unused walkers, wheelchairs, IV poles, and some other things I couldn't even see has beige tile. I now know that.

This led to a pile of wheelchairs that were not needed. I guess in the happiness that related to disocvering the floor of the room the director piled these wheelchairs next to the dumpster to be picked up with the trash. After a trip out to smoke I noticed the chrome wheels gleaming in the sun and it hit me, why our we throwing away perfectly good usable wheelchairs? I related this to another nurse and we formulated a plan. We got on the phones and called everyone we could think of. We reached the VFW, who was thrilled with the donation and promised they would be distributed to Veterns that could not afford to buy one. A church received some, and a local charity that caters to senior citizens also promised us they would be given to seniors who needed them.

I have had an emotional high all evening. Just knowing that we saved these wheelchairs and someone will get to use them that needs them warms me up.

I am a nurse to!

I am still quite angry about what happened the other night and really I shouldn't be. But I am. We sent a patient to the ER that had taken a pretty good fall for complaints of knee pain. Of course it didn't take an expert to know she had a fracture. The inability to touch the foot, let alone attempt range of motion summed it up. About three hours later I get a call from the ER nurse with report. Being that our facility is carpeted and thankfully our administration strives to have clean surroundings, the carpet is cleaned almost daily. So while the maintence department was running a very loud carpet steamer I tryed to take the call. This is what I heard:

Ernurse: "We---admit-----fracture."

me: "Your're admitting pt. ABC with a fracture?"

Ernurse: "No----right."

Me: "I am sorry they are cleaning carpets in here I can't hear a thing! Hold on a minute and let me switch phones."

Me: "Ok I can hear now I am sorry"

Ernurse: I SAID WE ARE ADMITTING PT ABC WITH A RIGHT SPIRAL FRACTURE, DON'T YOU KNOW THAT THAT IS A VERY SEVERE FRACTURE? GEEZ...

Me: "Thanks for calling." Click.


First of all, I took the same classes, same exams, same clinicals to obtain the same degree as her. Second of all I would think after all of that I would know what a spiral fracture is...geez.

I will get over it, I shouldn't let small things get to me. It just reminded me of the same question I am asked over and over through the years, "your a nurse? A real nurse? and you work in the nursing home? why?" I have come to the answer to sum it up pretty well, that I love it and thank God for people like me that do, or who would do it. If I had never worked in a nursing home, I would have never wanted to be a nurse in the first place. I realized early on that I could not make a decent living at the wage of a nursing assistant even though thats what I wanted to do, so I got my degree to have a stable, good paying (nursing homes pay on the average 2-3 dollars more an hour then hospitals here) career.

I am only usually asked this or get that attitude from non-medical workers, it just hurts sometimes when it comes from someone who should know.

Please Put Mr. Moore out of his misery.

Someone please put Michael Moore out of his misery. So the guy had a point in Bowling For Columbine, however he seems to now think it is ok to produce a documentary in the style of attacking all others that do not agree with him. We are all entitled to our opinions and our own view that is the magic of human interaction, I tell you mine and you share yours. We learn from each other this way. However this is not the problem I have with Mr. Moore at the moment . Michael Moore is rumored to be considering a documentary about the government response to the Katrina disaster. I hope that we as a country will not view this and let Michael Moore gain a penny from a disaster that has affected so many. I checked out his website, hoping I could find some type of promise that any monetary gain from such a documentary would be given to the hurricane relief. But apparently Mr. Moore is just as greedy as he accuses the president and others of being.

Not one person should benefit from this disaster except the people who suffered in it. Of course lots of people will.  

What can I say

What can I say about the Hurricane Katrina that has not already been said? Not much. I feel so bad for all the innocent victims (children) that have suffered in all the areas hit. There is something that stops me from feeling too terrible about the adults, they knew it was coming and chose to stay. Yes I say “chose”. Now I am not saying this to produce an argument on my blog, different opinions is one thing, calling me names isn’t, voice opinions if you want. I feel bad that some people could not for whatever reason leave, but the ones that felt they could ride out the storm I have no pity for. That is ignorance, ‘nuff said. I also feel terrible for those who stayed and those who left that have lost everything. I cannot even begin to imagine where you would start to get from point A to point B when there is no point A to begin with. I know that people will once again rise above this tragedy and move on. People are strong in that way. What is it with these people that refuse to leave? Stupidity or Post Traumatic Stress Disorder is the only thing that comes to mind. There are a lot of stupid people around us all it seems most days.

Our president has made the statement that he will look into this, see why the lack aide happened. This to me is ridiculous. Yes we do need to know why it happened, but I am sure that our wonderful president will find a way to spin it so that he is not to blame. I am sure the burden will be placed on others, shit rolls downhill and seeing as he is at the top of the ladder he will be the one throwing it. I guess I cannot complain, I didn’t vote. I couldn’t bring myself to do it. I personally felt that we had no good choice and seeing as my ballot would not contain a box marked “other” I stayed home. I couldn’t stand either one of them, neither was qualified and not one man had an original idea. I knew this wonderful country that was built upon the backs of mine and yours ancestors was going to lose until the next election no matter who was elected. But all those people needed was water and the same administration that can drop a missile at will cannot get water to the ones who need it. Murder comes to mind when I think of placing blame.